Should I skip the world tiers and go to New York?

[Fromage]

Just reached level 30, and finished the campaign. What achievements are locked out?

[Roovka]

I'd check the ingame Commendation screen. From my understanding, and I'll be honest with you, it's been a LONG time since I've done anything pre-WoNY, there shouldn't be anything specific locked out.

If you want the full story, then I would go through the World Tiers as normal for sure. You also get a quick "tutorial" on most of the things Black Tusk will throw at you. You can always do these missions as they crop up in different regions on a weekly basis after completing WoNY as well if you prefer to start getting meaningful drops.

[Doowie]

If it's your first time with the game, I'd recommend you go everything as planned, so you get a sense of how the game was played, when it was released.

[CursedPanther]

Correct me if I'm wrong, level 40 stuff should supersede anything you obtain from grinding through World Tier 5 at Washington DC. But I'm not sure if you're allowed to take your level 40(GS515?) stuff back from NY to use in DC missions.

[Doowie]

Originally posted by CursedPanther:

Correct me if I'm wrong, level 40 stuff should supersede anything you obtain from grinding through World Tier 5 at Washington DC. But I'm not sure if you're allowed to take your level 40(GS515?) stuff back from NY to use in DC missions.

Unfortunately if you skip that content, you will not be able to do that story line in DC, as it will be automatically completed for you. So you can replay those missions for example.

[CursedPanther]

Upon further searching on the topic, it seems returning from NY with GS515 stuff and the game will automatically scale your stuff back to GS500 in DC. You will continue to get GS515 rated stuff but you won't maximize their full potential till you return to NY activities.

[Pixelmonarch]

You should definitely advance through the World Tiers. You will miss out a major story ark if you don't.

[RivvenDarke]

Im a new player (started like 6 weeks ago).
Imho they should get rid of all this gear score and world tier nonsense. Its a totally confusing game mechanic which gets obsolete soon after without ever resurfacing.
My advice would be to play your first character to level 30 to see all the story and then switch to WoNY and continue there to level 40. For all subsequent chars I started on level 30 with WoNY.